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The Fastpitch Book created by Fastpitch TV Publishing

This book has twenty great fastpitch softball articles written by twenty great fastpitch softball coaches. As a special bonus this book also includes a dedicated section of tips and resources from many other coaches.

This information is meant to give insight, and thought processes into the game of fastpitch softball.

It contains many tools, and techniques behind what it takes to train great players and build a successful team.

The twenty coaches involved in this book are:

Mitch Alexander

Laura Berg

Darrick Brown

Charity Butler

Keri Casas

Rob Crews

Michele Martin Diltz

Charlie Dobbins

Joni Frei

Rita Lynn Gilman

Lisa Iancin

Bryan Burrows Ingalis

Stacie Mahoe

Shannon McDougall

Shannon Murray

Venus Taylor

Aaron Weintraub

Dr. Sherry Werner

Meagan Denny White

Kaci Clark Zerbe

Good luck reaching for your next championship!

If you want to read more about this book and where to purchase just go to FastpitchBook.com/

Tee Stackers Are Not Only A Great Training Aid, But They Are Fun To Use.

Tee Stackers are a unique tool for training baseball and softball hitters.

Ball players enjoy learning and training with this simple tool because it becomes a game and a challenge to see how many balls they can hit (one at a time) stacked on top of each other.

This softball or baseball hitting aid really does help develop eye-hand coordination, and teaches a player to hit the ball properly.

This training aid will provide instant feedback to your hitter and coach. It is difficult to hit multiple balls stacked on top of each without knocking of the others. This takes practice and focus on hitting the ball, and nothing but the ball.

Yes. Tee stackers teach focus, and eye hand coordination while allowing players to have a fun.

Make sure you watch the video above to see just how the Tee Ball Stackers are used to improve hitting.

Many people say that Joan Joyce was the greatest fastpitch softball player of all times. In this video Joan explains the basics of the slingshot pitch.

As a pitcher she used the slingshot pitch. This was in a time before the windmill pitch became the dominate pitch in the sport of fastpitch softball.

Her list of accomplishments are so long that it would hard to list them all. One of her most impressive accomplishments was when she struck out baseball legend Ted Williams in several exhibition games.

Joan’s talent seemed to be endless as she has been a pro softball player, pro golfer, pro volley ball player, pro bowler, pro baseketball player and more. Joan Joyce holds her position strong as one of the greatest female athletes of all time.

If you have been to a Fastpitch Softball game in the past few years I am sure you have noticed that some of the infielders and pitchers are wearing protective faceguards.

This is a trend that started a few years back, and has taken the world of fastpitch softball by storm. Softball facemasks are taking the off like a rock and with good reason.

A youth softball pitcher is only 35 feet away from the batter at home plate. Compare that to the over 60 foot distance in baseball, and you will easily the reason.

Infielders are so much closer to the batter that they just don’t have the reaction time to get out of the way of a rocket headed right at their head.

Faceguards.com was created to offer a one stop shopping site to buy protection for your loved ones. With a large selection of softball facemasks to choose from you can easily find a mask that works for you.
Facemasks from Worth, Rip It, Schutt, Game Face, Mizuno and more. Faceguards.com even sells custom painted softball faceguards that you can’t find on other sites.

If you are looking for protection for your softball player you don’t need to look any further than Faceguards.com

In 2014 Olympian Dr. Dot Richardson started a series of interviews with softball legends for the History Of Softball Video Series.

On this episode she interviews softball Legend, and University of Michigan head coach Carol Hutchins. She has developed a very impressive record with the Michigan softball organization.

This is a great conversation between two softball greats. Carol has been an inspiration and made a very big impact on the sport of fastpitch softball over the years. I had the honor of meeting her and doing an interview for my show as well.

If you want to learn more about Legends of Softball watch more Softball History videos on You Tube.

Since the Fastpitch Magazine is only available on iPads, iPods, and Android devices some people can’t subscribe. Maybe they don’t have a smart phone or tablet, or maybe they just don’t want to use their phones and tablets to subscribe.

That is why the Best of the Fastpitch Magazine was Printed. This is the first book in a new printed series published by Fastpitch.TV. More issues will be released in the near future.

The Anywhere Ball Is Great For Indoor And Outdoor Practice

The Anywhere Ball is a great training tool for hitters. A great training ball for indoor and outdoor use. The Hit Anywhere Practice Ball is a foam practice ball. Because this soft ball is made of foam it will never crack or break.

The fact that they are foam also means they will get very compact for storage and transport. In other words you can cram a lot of them in your ball bucket. The other great thing about the Anywhere Training Ball is the instant feedback your player gets when they hit the ball.

I have used these ball for hitting into a fence out at the fields, and they are fantastic.

Everyone is familiar with the black greasy substance ball players rub under their eyes. They use this to help keep the glare of the sun out of their eyes. Between you and me, I think they wear eyeblack to make themselves look mean. They want to send a message that they are tough, and mean. This may be subliminal message , but it is a message.

Traditional eyeblack is messy, and can even bother your eyes by rubbing it with your hands. Then the fact that on a hot day it can melt in your bat bag, and you have a possible super mess.

That is the beauty of eyeblack stickers. Their is no mess, no rubbing in your eyes, no problems at all.

These stickers work to block glare just like eyeblack grease does, but they offer an extra benefit. You can send a message that is not subliminal. A message that everyone will see.
The eyeblack stickers are printed with words, logos, messages, and yes you can get solid colors too.

Many teams will order custom eyeblack stickers with their team logos on them. Advertisers even buy with their company logo on them to give away at sporting events.

Eyeblack stickers are really pretty cool, and i am sure your team will enjoy them.

The Fastpitch Softball Magazine Podcast

As you have probably figured out from the name of this podcast it is associate with the Fastpitch Softball Magazine. At the time of this blog entry there are over fifty issues of The Fastpitch Softball Magazine, and most issues have around ten articles for a total of over five hundred great articles about fastpitch softball.

On every episode of the Fastpitch Softball Magazine Podcast Kathy Leland reads you an article starting with issue one. Each of these articles are written by our great list of softball experts and writers.

When you get down to the nitty gritty this podcast is an audio version of the magazine.

If you love softball, you will find this podcast a great way to consume The Fastpitch Softball Magazine. Since it is audio you can listen while on a walk or listen while driving your car. Where you choose to listen is up to you.

Listen To Softball Podcasts On The Fastpitch Radio App

The Fastpitch Radio App is a great app. It allows you to listen on the go with your iPhone or iPad. The really great thing about this app is the fact that new episodes are automatically uploaded to the app as they come out.

No more hunting around for the newest episode. The Fastpitch Radio App is more than just a single podcast. It is a complete network of podcasts, and softball focused shows.
The Shows on the network are as follows:

The Accubat Is A Great Tool For Hitting Practice Balls

How can the Accubat help me? Lets face the facts, not every parent played a lot of baseball or softball as a kid. I know many parents want to help the coach during practice or before a game, but just aren’t able to hit the ball to the exact point they want with a normal bat. Many coaches use another product known as the Fungo Bat, but even as a one handed bat its still hard to get the hand eye cordination down for good placement.

That is why I found the real beauty of the Accubat is its wide reactive net that allows you to easily hit the ball to where your player is set up. Anyone is able to hit pop flys, grounders, or line drives to any player on the field.

It is really kind of amazing how accurate this hitting aid is. I guess that is why they named it the Accubat! As the video shows the hitting aid is simple to use, and much easier than a fungo bat for those fist time parent coaches.

Michael Bastian Teaches Infield Mechanics

Coach Michael Bastian is well known around the softball world for the years of work he has put into his training clinics at The Fastpitch School (TFS). Coach Bastian worked hard to help coach and develop the softball team at Centenary College of Louisiana. His resume includes many years of international and domestic coaching, clinical and professional speaking engagement experience. But most remember him for the time he spent working with the Chinese Olympic Softball Team in 2005.

Anyway you look at it Coach Bastian has committed a lot of years working with teams and players to help better their skills in the great game of fastpitch softball.

In this video Coach Bastian works with a young softball player to help her perfect her infield grounding skills. Take a look at the video, and maybe you will learn something that will help improve your game.

Softball Junk, The First Fastpitch Store Online!

I know this is going to be hard to believe, but in 2000 when SoftballJunk.com first went live on the Internet there were no fastpitch softball equipment websites on the internet.

Everyone ether bought equipment online from baseball websites, or websites for slowpitch softball. Yes these websites may of added a few pieces of softball equipment, or some fastpitch bats, but they were still baseball, or slowpitch softball websites.

When SoftballJunk.com can on the scene it was an overnight success. People had never seen a website that only sold girls fastpitch softball equipment.

The orders came in like crazy, but so did the phone calls from people that wanted to express their thanks to us for creating the Softball Junk website.

Now it is going on 17 years since that website first appeared, and the website is still doing great.

The next time you need some fastpitch softball equipment please take a look at SoftballJunk.com.

Softball Trivia Anyone?

I have always been a trivia fan, and I love the sport of fastpitch softball. I guess it is not a surprise that I have come to love this new podcast.

If you didn’t know, the Softball Trivia Podcast is a short, fun, weekly podcast created to entertain fans of the game. As you listen to this podcast it challenges you by asking questions, and then given multiple choice answers. Can you pick the correct answer? If you do then you can test your knowledge on all of your friends and show them how much you know about the game of softball and its history!

Go ahead, give this show a try and I bet it will soon become one of your favorite podcasts.